Hydroponic Cultivation Kit

Abstract

A hydroponic cultivation kit enables taking a plant seedling, intact in its planting soil, out of a growth pot and replanting it. Within a growth pot prepared in advance, a plant seedling or the like planted in soil is taken out of the growth pot together with the soil and cultivated in a culture solution. The hydroponic cultivation kit is furnished with: foam stone for surrounding the soil periphery of the plant taken out from the growth pot; a retaining mesh pot for retaining the plant with its soil periphery surrounded by the foam stone; and a buoyant member for floating the mesh pot in culture solution inside a water-tank unit. The mesh pot has perforations such as to prohibit the foam stone from passing through it, yet meanwhile permit passage of roots jutting out from the plant.

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD[0001]The present invention relates to hydroponic cultivation kits, and is especially suited as a hydroponic cultivation kit for home gardening.[0002]Hydroponic cultivation allows for easy observation of decorative as well as edible plants—of how they are being raised—and therefore the trend has been toward its adoption both as a pastime and for practical benefits. Devices for hydroponic cultivation include those that supply a culture solution directly to a cultivation tank, instead of storing it in a separate liquid reservoir, and dissolve in essential nutrients and adjust the preparation to a concentration suited to growing produce. With the cultivation tank alone being sufficient, making circulation pumps and plumbing unnecessary, this device is small-scale and simple, such as to be relatively easy to handle and therefore ideally suited to general home garden applications.[0003]With this type of hydroponic cultivation device, however, supply of the culture solution...

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Benefits of technology

[0024]According to a hydroponic cultivation kit involving a first among modes of the present invention, it is furnished with an encompassing material for surrounding the soil periphery of a plant taken out from its growth pot, a retaining member for retaining the plant with its soil periphery surrounded by the encompassing material, and a buoyant member for floating the retaining member in culture solution inside a water-tank unit, wherein the retaining member has perforations such as to prohibit the encompassing material from passing through it, yet meanwhile permit passage of roots jutting out from the plant, and

Problems solved by technology

Yet the fact that the plant seedling 9 is replanted upon taking it out of the growth pot 3

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